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Kin protests against terror tag on
Shaheed
A close kin of
Shaheed Bhagat Singh has now personally taken up cudgels to focus on
the distortions about the martyr in text books. In a letter to the
UPSC, the son of the martyr's younger brother has described how the
man revered by the nation was being described as a terrorist.
The Chairman,
Union Public Service Commission,
New Delhi
 It is tragic
that while on the one hand the Nation is celebrating the birth
centenary of the Great Martyr, he is projected as a terrorist in
Q.No. 2 (C), the pre-fix revolutionary shades into insignificance
being a subordinate to the principal appellation. In terms of
logic, the Martyr is placed in the GENUS ‘terrorist’ albeit of the
‘revolutionary’ SPECIES.
Terrorism as per
its ordinary-literal meaning implies the systematic and organized
use of violence and intimidation to force a government and
community, which, in the fact and circumstance of the case is far
from being applicable to Sardar Bhagat Singh and his comrades.
Indeed in respect of their last ‘action’, of 8th April 1929, the
Lahore High Court while rejecting their appeal had observed : “That
Bhagat Singh is a sincere revolutionary I have no doubt….”
Thus, while the
erstwhile judicial authorities deemed to be reflecting the outlook
of foreign rulers, had take care to portray the Martyr aptly, an
august institution of a free India becomes a party to his being
defamed, since these days terrorism denotes senseless indiscriminate
killing of any one including women and children.
In view of the
above it is request that
(a) a public
apology, endorsed by the Union Public Service Commission be publicly
issued, expounding the appropriate status of the Martyr in this
regard.
(b) a suitable
screening mechanism be instituted to pre-screen the question papers
in a sensitive subject like Indian History.
(c) screening of
the official text books like those of NCERT to weed out such like
expressions and finally a deterrent punishment to the delinquent
paper setter.
It is requested
that immediate action may kindly be initiated with an intimation to
the undersigned in that regard.
Yours sincerely,
(Abhey Singh
Sandhu)
Phone 09815308803
S/o S. Kulbir Singh Sandhu
Younger brother of Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh
# 290, Sector 33-A, Chandigarh
28 November, 2007
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